My recollection of Ladies Only compartments is that they certainly survived on the isle of Wight in the 1950s, and I think are replicated on the IWSR stock at Haven Street. I seem to remember them on other Southern Region compartment stck. Peter Northover -- Dr Peter Northover, Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group, Department of Materials, University of Oxford Tel +44 (0)1865 283721; Fax +44 (0)1865 841943 Mobile +44 (0)7785 501745 e-mail [log in to unmask]